Town Hall 2004: Research Table of Contents...

Oklahoma’s Environment:
Pursuing A Responsible Balance

Section 1

 

 

Introduction

Our 2004 Town Hall

Julie Knutson, President and CEO, Oklahoma Academy; Bill McKamey, Vice-President, American Electric Power; Michael Lapolla, University of Oklahoma; and Craig Knutson, e-conographic Consulting Services

 

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River Projects Envisioned

Brian Barber, Staff Writer, Tulsa World, August 11, 2004

Indian Nations Council of Governments; and Carter-Burgess (Dallas, TX)

 

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Moving Toward Sustainable Progress

Will Focht, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of the Environmental Institute and the Environmental Science Graduate Program, Oklahoma State University

 

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Smart Growth: Investing in Oklahoma

Susan Savage, Secretary of State and former Mayor of Tulsa

 

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Smart Growth: Investing in a Better Future

A Review of the Fiscal and Competitive Advantages of Smarter Growth Development Patterns by Mark Muro and Robert Puentes, March 2004, The Brookings Institution

 

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“Breakfast from Arkansas”

Marty D. Matlock, PhD, PE, CSE, Associate Professor of Ecological Engineering and Robert A. Morgan , University of Arkansas; and Kent W. Thornton, FTN Associates, Ltd.

 

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Section 2

 

 

Oklahoma

Thoughts of an Oklahoma Environmentalist, Oilman & Teacher R. Dobie Langenkamp, Professor and Director National Energy-Environment Law and Policy Institute at the University of Tulsa College of Law

 

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Thoughts of an Oklahoma Scientist and Educator

Charles J. Mankin, PhD, Director, Oklahoma Geological Survey and Sarkeys Energy Center

 

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Tar Creek: Oklahoma’s Poster Child for “Imbalance”

Steve Thompson, Director, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality

 

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Urban Sprawl in Oklahoma

Robert Gregory and Anita Poole, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture

 

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Brownfields in Oklahoma

Rita Kottke, PhD, Brownfield Program Coordinator, Land Protection Division, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality

 

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Air Quality in Tulsa: “An Ounce of Prevention ...”

Jerry Lasker, Executive Director, Indian Nations Council of Governments

 

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Air Quality in Oklahoma City: “Any Way The Wind Blows ...”

Zach D. Taylor, Executive Director; and Jerry A. Church, Special Programs Officer Association of Central Oklahoma Governments

 

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Recycling in Oklahoma?

Michael Patton, Executive Director, The Metropolitan (Tulsa) Environmental Trust

 

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Efforts to Boost (Oklahoma) Recycling Going to Waste

By Michael Baker, Staff Writer, Daily Oklahoman, July 6, 2004

 

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Section 3

 

 

Social Balance

Human Behavior and Land Use

Beth Schaefer Caniglia, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University

 

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Human Behavior and Water Use

Guy W. Sewell, Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Robert S. Kerr Endowed Chair, East Central University

 

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Human Behavior and a Culture of Compliance

John R. Shook, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma State University and Director of OSU’s Pragmatism Archive and Beth Shaefer Caniglia, Assistant Professor of Environmental Sociology, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University

 

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Section 4

 

 

Environmental Balance

Hydrogen and Automobiles

Stan Ovshinsky, National Public Radio, April 27, 2004

 

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Cleaning Up Oklahoma’s Landscape

Robert J. Sullivan, Jr., Chairman, Oklahoma Energy Resources Board

 

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A Responsible Balance and the Nature Conservancy

Grant Gerondale, Director of Environmental Affairs, The Nature Conservancy of Oklahoma

 

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Restoring the Tall Grass Prairie

Samuel D. Fuhlendorf and David M. Engle, Rangeland Ecology and Management Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University

 

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Nature’s True Value

Tom Libby, Chairman, Oklahoma Chapter, The Sierra Club

 

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Save The Illinois River

Ed Brocksmith, Secretary-Treasurer, Save the Illinois River, Inc

 

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Illinois River: Deal Leaves Tulsa Developer Facing Fine

Rod Walton, The Tulsa World, May 16, 2004

 

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Working For Oklahoma’s Economic & Environmental Future

James Barnett, President and General Counsel, The Environmental Federation of Oklahoma
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Us ... and Our Neighboring States

Diana Wilkins, Department of Environmental Quality (Oklahoma)

 

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Section 5

 

 

Economic Balance

Corporate

A Global View of Corporate Sustainability

Mark P. Sharfman, PhD, Associate Professor of Strategic Management Division of Management and Michael F. Price College of Business, The University of Oklahoma

 

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Xerox and Corporate Sustainability

James E. Warram, P.E., Environmental Engineer, Xerox Corporation, Oklahoma City

 

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The Built Environment & Sustainable Development

Dru Meadows, AIA, CCS, CSI and Chuck Bell, AIA, NCARB

 

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Weyerhaeuser in Oklahoma

Mike Wood, Environmental Affairs Manager, Weyerhaeuser Company

 

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Making the Case for High Performance Buildings

Francis Kubier, (Rees and Associates) Oklahoma Organizing Group

 

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Sustainability: Good Business and Good Sense

J.J. Mulva, President & CEO, ConocoPhillips

 

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Agri-Business

Poultry and Pork Agri-Business: Oklahoma’s Two White Meats

Anita Poole, Assistant to the President/Legal Counsel, Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture

 

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Seaboard Farms: Pork in the Panhandle

Gary Reckrodt, Communications and Public Affairs Manager Seaboard Farms, Inc

 

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Agriculture

Oklahoma Agriculture - A Major Contributor to a Responsible Balance

Terry Detrick, Vice President, Oklahoma Farmers Union

 

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Valuing Natural Resources

Tom Lucas, Resource Conservation & Development Coordinator, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service

 

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Sustainable and Diversified Agriculture

Terry Peach, Oklahoma Secretary of Agriculture and Jack Carson, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry

 

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Sustainable Agriculture at Oklahoma State University

Ross O. Love, PhD, Assistant Director, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University

 

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Section 6

 

 

Institutional Balance

Oklahoma Legislature: The Inside Scoop

Larry Rice, State Representative; and Director of Public Affairs, University of Tulsa

 

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Native American

Indian Sovereignty

Lee Hester, Director of American Indian Studies, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Director of the Howard Meredith Indian Humanities Center

 

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EPA Policy for Programs on Indian Reservations

William Ruckelshaus, Director, Environmental Protection Agency, November 8, 1984

 

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The Inter-Tribal Environmental Council of Oklahoma

Lee Hester, Director of American Indian Studies, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma and Director of the Howard Meredith Indian Humanities Center

 

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State Government

This Generation’s Problem

Miles Tolbert, Secretary of the Environment, State of Oklahoma

 

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DEQ …”for a clean, attractive, prosperous Oklahoma.”

Steve Thompson, DEQ Executive Director

 

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Oklahoma Conservation Commission

Larry Edmison, Water Quality Division Director, Oklahoma Conservation Commission

 

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A Responsible Regulatory Balance

Jeff Cloud, Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner

 

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Federal Government

Regional Environmental Protection Agency

Richard Greene, Regional Administrator, EPA Region 6 (OK, NM, TX, LA and 66 Tribes)

 

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Our Vision: “Harmony between People and the Land”

M. Darrel Dominick, State Conservationist, USDA – NRCS, Stillwater, OK

 

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The U.S. Geological Survey: Emerging Contamination Issues

Kim Winton, PhD, District Chief, Oklahoma Water Resources Division, U.S. Geological Survey

 

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The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers: Pursuing Balance

Stephen L. Nolen, Chief, Environmental Analysis and Compliance Branch Planning, Environmental, and Regulatory Division, Tulsa District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

 

 

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Section 7

 

 

Moving Ideas Into Action

An Education Agenda

Mark Meo, PhD, Research Fellow, Science and Public Policy Program & School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, University of Oklahoma

 

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A Research and Education Agenda

Will Focht, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science; Director of the Environmental Institute and the Environmental Science Graduate Program, Oklahoma State University

 

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